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Chapter 13 Knocking on the Door at Midnight
Xiaosong and Xiaobai are still young, although the family has had bad news one after another, and they are so poor that they are jingling, but it doesn't affect their happiness when they have sweets.

This piece of candy made them give up on Zhang Sijiu even more.

Zhang Sijiu likes to mention two small followers——

Zhang Xiaoshan came back in the evening and brought back a message: "Recently, the county magistrate is going to build a ferry. It is on our river. There are people guarding it every day, and we will get on and off the boat from there. Unexpectedly, the new county magistrate just took office. Just think about us."

Zhang Sijiu's heart skipped a beat: Could it be related to the capsizing of the boat last time?
However, Mrs. Xu is not optimistic about this matter: "How many years has this matter been mentioned, and it has been said to be repaired, but no one has repaired it. Maybe it will be the same as before, talking about it for fun."

Zhang Xiaoshan shook his head: "We're hiring workers, and I've signed up too. Eighty yuan a day is pretty good."

Xu was both surprised and delighted: "That's very good!"

Eighty dollars, you can buy a lot of things.In the county town, it is considered very high.

Because of this, Xu's opinion of the new county magistrate became very high: "It seems that this county magistrate is a good magistrate."

As a common people, what else is more pleasing than this?

The atmosphere of the whole family became brighter because of this matter.

Dinner is mung bean rice porridge with cold cucumber slices.

Cucumber slices are simply served with soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, with some sesame oil and minced garlic served cold, except that there is no oil and water, it is very refreshing to serve with rice.

Zhang Sijiu took a sip of porridge and realized that he was really hungry.

Although I only shared a piece of meat a few days ago, I really couldn't satisfy my craving.

In the past few days, she dreamed that she was eating fried chicken, fried meat, and hot pot.

But eating like this is also good-it is absolutely impossible to be obese, let alone high blood pressure and high blood fat.

After dinner, Zhang Sijiu boiled hot water while Xu washed the dishes.

Perhaps Zhang Xiaoshan found a job, and Xu's mood was so high that he hummed a ditty softly.

Zhang Sijiu was also infected, and his mood became much brighter.

Putting a lump of wood into the stove, watching the ever-changing red flames, her mood gradually calmed down, and her anxiety about the future gradually dissipated: don't worry, life will definitely get better and better.

After finishing the work, he brought some hot water and adjusted the temperature of the water. Zhang Sijiu went to bathe the little pumpkin—it was said to be a bath, but in fact it was just to wipe his body with water. Just hold your back, wash your head, wash your hands and feet.

Originally, this was done by Mrs. Xu.

But after Zhang Sijiu recovered, she consciously or unintentionally took over the job to lighten Xu's burden.

Now that he has a better understanding of the family, Zhang Sijiu really understands how many things a peasant woman has to do every day: Zhang Luo’s family feeds, washes clothes, cuts grass and cooks pig food, feeds pigs and chickens, and is also in charge of the vegetable garden. Weeding, fertilizing and other things on the ridges of the fields are really busy without touching the ground.

Even after resting at night, Mrs. Xu still has to find out the needle and thread, and sew and mend it.

Mrs. Xu has almost no free time every day.

Zhang Sijiu couldn't help admiring him.She couldn't bear it even more, so she took over everything she could do.

While making shoes for Zhang Xiaoshan, Mrs. Xu watched Zhang Sijiu bathe the little pumpkin, rubbing the needle in his hair from time to time.

There was a gratifying smile on her face: "Jiu Niang is getting more and more capable."

Zhang Sijiu wiped the little pumpkin dry, wrapped it up again, and then began to coax the little pumpkin who was already about to cry, with gentle and skillful movements.

Regarding Xu's compliment, Zhang Sijiu smiled: "That's not as capable as Second Aunt. Second Aunt is really capable."

With so much work, and being able to arrange it in such an orderly manner, Mrs. Xu is really amazing.

Mrs. Xu was overjoyed by the compliment, and laughed softly, "Your mother is actually more capable—"

After saying this, she thought of her sister-in-law, looked at Little Pumpkin and Zhang Sijiu, and stopped talking again.

Zhang Sijiu didn't continue this topic either.

She talked about the drinking water problem at home: "Second Aunt, I will boil a can of boiling water and drink it every morning. I heard that drinking raw water is easy to grow worms in the stomach."

It's summer now, and it's just right to drink cold boiled water.

As for winter—that's another story.

Mrs. Xu felt a little troublesome about this kind of thing: "How can it be so easy to grow worms? The well water here is quite clean. Boiling water every day, don't you think it's troublesome?"

"I don't mind." Zhang Sijiu shook his head, put the little pumpkin that had been coaxed to sleep back into the cradle, and then began to seriously talk to Xu about it: "How scary is it to have worms? It doesn't take much to boil water, It’s just waste firewood. I see that there are a lot of bamboo shoot shells in the bamboo forest and no one picks them up, so I’ll just pick some up and burn them. If there are really insects growing, I have to buy medicine, how expensive it is!”

As soon as she heard about buying medicine, Mrs. Xu nodded: "Then you can burn it. But you don't dare to pick up the firewood in the bamboo forest. Go to the bamboo forest in our house and don't touch other people's. Otherwise, when the time comes Gotta fight again."

Zhang Sijiu was taken aback: So the seemingly wild bamboo forest has an owner?

She nodded: "I'll just pick up ours."

In fact, she didn't know how to divide it at all.But this question is not easy to ask Xu, she decided to go back and ask Zhaoyin.

Zhaoyin is the strong girl who enthusiastically helps carry grass.

These days, Zhang Sijiu went to mow the grass with her almost every day, and they were already familiar with each other.

There are three younger brothers in Zhaoyin's family. She is the eldest sister and has to do a lot of work every day, so she is very capable.The character is also very good.

Zhang Sijiu quite liked this girl.

Mrs. Xu explained again: "Don't pick it up too clean, fungi will grow in the rainy bamboo forest. If you pick it up too clean, it won't grow up."

Zhang Sijiu didn't know about this, and when he heard this, he couldn't help thinking of all kinds of delicious mushrooms.She swallowed restrainedly: "Okay."

Keep some leaves, so that the soil will be more fertile, and the fungi will be more nutritious, Zhang Sijiu understands this.

After talking for a while, Mrs. Xu and Zhang Sijiu also went to wipe their bodies, and then woke up a couple who were enjoying the cool in the yard, and went to sleep.

As for grandma Yang, she is getting older and she is not in good health recently, so she goes to bed earlier.

However, just as the family fell asleep, there was a knock on the door.

At first, I took a few shots politely, but when no one responded, the people outside the door began to shout: "Sister Xu! Sister Xu! Open the door!"

After calling Xu, he called Zhang Sijiu again: "Jiu Niang! Jiu Niang! Open the door for me!"

If it weren't for that voice full of energy and loudness, it would be a bit scary in the middle of the night.

However, the child's sleep quality is very good, Zhang Sijiu didn't hear it at all.She was awakened when Mrs. Xu came in to hug the little pumpkin.

That's all, it has to be a habit developed by working the night shift.If someone moves around, she will wake up instantly, fearing that there will be an emergency.

　Look, I updated it on time today.I can't help but praise myself!See you tomorrow~
　　
　
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